Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or brother:
“O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence:”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)